Social Media & online applications

for GT Hiring Solutions Clients

Who ...?

• who has a mobile smart phone? by 2013 mobiles out# PC’s personal computers!

• who uses google? youtube? bing? for internet searching

• who texts more than use the actual phone? who remembers a rotary phone with party lines??? 70’s kids!

• Who uses FB to stay in touch with friends outside long distance areas? or your friends that live almost next door?

• who uses twitter ? or knows teenagers who use it?

• who uses foursquare or yelp to find restaurants or gyms?

What is social media?

• Social Media or SM is a term used mostly by Gen X or baby boomers to describe online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Foursquare, etc....

• What to expect from 3 hour workshop

• How can SM help you find work?

• Where do you start to use SM to help you find work?

• “Play time” after each SM theme introduced

The stats...

•Facebook 850million users (2012)

Twitter 200million users (2011)

Linkedin 120million users (march 2011)

Google+ 25million users 10mill in 2 weeks of “limited phase” Tumbler 13 million users

What does this mean?

• New revolution: social media is the next communication tool that changes everything we do!!!!!

• who has tried google’ing their name ?

• What comes up?

• This will be done on computers for each person

• the # of hits that are really you on page one is what we are looking for

• This will be your baseline of your online presence

social media: how can it help you find

work?Linkedin: professional platform

Linkedin #1• 135 million users

• all professionals

• makes a profit

• decreases 6 degrees of separation to 3

• networking geniusness

• recommendations

• add skills & search for jobs & follow companies u want to work for

Linkedin Play

• Review linkedin home page

• Using Sheny’s linkedin page

• what companies are on there?

• What jobs come up & why?

• How do you best complete your profile?

• Resources: shenygregory.com

get me connected

Social Media tool #2: TwitterFollow companies you want to work for; if an

If you are an expert in an area; start your own twitter account; see mine http://twitter.com/shenykerFollow employment agencies for job tips and postingsFollow people of influence (500+ followers)Follow experts in your field

twitter.com/shenykertwitter.com/gvsduncan

Twitter - you can search twitter without an accountUse hashtags - #jobs or #jobs victoria or #marketing See what comes up?The unfortunate thing is twitter accounts don’t always reflect the companyie gvsduncan if you don’t know it may not come up in your search - don’t expect google results

Research company values, successes & community involvement via FB

Facebook has a fan page / business page option for businesses that you can follow to show your interest, share insights, etcFB is scheduled to be a public company which means you can buy shares for it $

Facebook: need to be member to search personal

business pages can be found by google search i.e. global vocational services;

The purpose of social media is

to meet f2f, share ideas,

solve problems

tweetups,Obama, Egypt

e.g. meet-ups, Obama, Egypt